# Hoang Sa
## English
### Alternative forms

* Hoàng Sa

### Etymology

Borrowed from Vietnamese Hoàng Sa (黃砂).

### Pronunciation

* IPA: /ˌhwɑŋ ˈsɑː/, /ˌhwæŋ ˈsɑː/

### Proper noun

Hoang Sa
* Synonym of Paracel Islands: the Vietnamese-derived name.
** 1958, A. V. H. Hartendorp, History of Industry and Trade of the Philippines: The Magsaysay Administration‎, →OCLC, page 218:Vietnamese sovereignty over the Paracels dated back at least to the early 19th century, when Emperor Gia-Long sent a detachment to Hoang Sa Island, it remained until the establishment of French protectorate over Annam, when France assumed responsibility for the islands.
** 1974, United States House Committee on Foreign Affairs, “Fact Sheet from Embassy of the Republic of Viet-Nam Information Office, Washington D.C., January 28, 1974, Entitled "The Sovereignty of the Republic of Viet-Nam Over the Archipelago of Hoang Sa (Paracels)"”, in Oil and Asian Rivals‎, Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, →OCLC, page 297:On January 16, 1974, Communist China brazenly invaded the Vietnamese Archipelago of Hoang Sa (Paracels).
** 1999, Humphrey Hawksley, Simon Holberton, Dragon Strike‎ (Fiction), St. Martin's Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 29:In the face of the extremely serious situation in the Truong Sa archipelago area, since December last year Vietnam has three times proposed to the Chinese side to open talks for the settlement of differences concerning the Truong Sa archipelago and other disputes over the common border and the Hoang Sa archipelago.
** 2012, Douglas M. Branson, Three Tastes of Nước Má̆m: The Brown Water Navy & Visits to Vietnam‎, Ashland, OR: Hellgate Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 281:While I was in Hanoi, in summer 2011, the Viet Nam News reported that “Viet Nam has affirmed its sovereignty over the Hoang Sa (Paracel) and Truong Sa (Spratly) archipelagos and protested China’s recent actions concerning the two island groups.” China Mobile (a private corporation) had evidently extended mobile service coverage to include the islands.
** 2017 November 25, Mike Ives, quoting Tran Duc Anh Son, “A Defiant Map-Hunter Stakes Vietnam’s Claims in the South China Sea”, in The New York Times‎, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 26 November 2017, Asia Pacific‎:“The Chinese know very clearly they never mentioned the Hoang Sa or the Truong Sa in their history books or historical maps,” Dr. Son said, using the Vietnamese terms for the Paracels and Spratlys.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hoang Sa.
* A claimed district of Da Nang, Vietnam.
** 1988, Summary of World Broadcasts: The Far East. Part III‎, Monitoring Service of the British Broadcasting Corporation, →ISSN, →OCLC, page A-32:The Council of Ministers also issued decision 194/HDBT to found, on 19th December, Hoang Sa district , which includes the whole of the Hoang Sa archipelago, and put it under the jurisdiction of Quang Nam-Da Nang Province. Up to that time, the Hoang Sa archipelago had been part of Hoa Vang district, Quang Nam-Da Nang Province.
** 2009 April 22, “Hoang Sa Island district to have new chairman”, in Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment‎, archived from the original on December 24, 2012:Da Nang authorities will announce the names of chairmen of eight districts, including the Hoang Sa (Paracel) Island district, on April 25. The Director of the Da Nang Department of Home Affairs, Dang Cong Ngu, who is also the chief representative of the People’s Committee of Hoang Sa district, said that the direct appointment of district chairmen in Da Nang city is being implemented under the pilot programme of closing down district-level People’s Councils in ten provinces and cities of Vietnam. According to the Da Nang People’s Council, Dang Cong Ngu will be appointed chairman of Hoang Sa Island district. On April 20, the Da Nang Department of Home Affairs met with some former officials who worked and lived on Hoang Sa Island, including Mr. Ngo Tan Phat, Mr. Vo Nhu Dan, Mr. Nguyen Nhu and Mr. Nguyen Van Cuc. The department asked them to relate memories from their time working on Hoang Sa and to sell or present historical documents and objects related to Hoang Sa.
** 2010, Zhiqun Zhu, “China and Southeast Asia”, in China's New Diplomacy: Rationale, Strategies, and Significance‎, Ashgate Publishing, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 189:Any unilateral action may trigger negative repercussions in the region. For example, in April 2009, Vietnam appointed an official to be the chairman of Hoang Sa District (Paracel Islands), which compelled China to denounce it as illegal and to reaffirm its sovereignty over the Paracels.
** 2015 January 13, Nguyen Tu, “Vietnam to start work on Paracel museum in April”, in Thanh Niên News‎, archived from the original on 23 January 2015:Le Phu Nguyen, a spokesman of the Hoang Sa District government, said on Sunday work on the US$89,000 museum will begin on April 30, the same day an annual international fireworks competition will kick off in Da Nang.
** For more quotations using this term, see Citations:Hoang Sa.

#### Translations
### References

* ↑ Paracel Islands, Vietnamese Quan Dao Hoang Sa, in Encyclopædia Britannica

### Further reading

* Hoang Sa, Hoàng Sa at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.
* “Hoang Sa” in TheFreeDictionary.com, Huntingdon Valley, Pa.: Farlex, Inc., 2003–2024.
* Saul B. Cohen, editor (1998), “Paracel Islands”, in The Columbia Gazetteer of the World‎, volume 3, New York: Columbia University Press, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 2361, column 2: “Known to the Vietnamese as Hoang Sa.”